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Foreword by Lloyd Kaufman!

“Use the combos, keep the feet light.
This is it.”

That’s Vincent Craig Dupree as boxing
champ Julius, psyching himself up for a showdown with, of all people,
unstoppable killer Jason Voorhees, in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes
Manhattan (1989). Perhaps unfamiliar with the fact that a goalie mask is
meant to stop rock-hard vulcanized rubber flying at 100 mph, his fists prove
laughably ineffective. Jason’s though, are anything but. He punches Julius’s head
clean off with one right cross.

A fist might seem like unconventional
weaponry compared with the knives and axes usually deployed by unspeaking,
unfeeling, unstoppable killers in horror films—and it is—but a fist doesn’t
even scratch the surface of the weird ways people have been killed in horror.

Horror movie victims have had ears of
corn buried in their backs; been decapitated by basketballs; lacerated by
avant-garde sculptures; skewered by mounted deer antlers; bludgeoned by pogo
sticks; punctured with unfurled umbrellas.

Discover these oddball deaths and some even stranger ways killers
have gone about their grisly business—MOs that would leave even the most
seasoned coroner shaking their head—provided that it’s still attached—for in
the world of horror, no one is safe.

Authors Christopher Lombardo and Jeff
Kirschner are Toronto horror journalists and hosts of the Really Awful
Movies Podcast, a weekly celebration of low-budget genre films. They also
review horror films new and old at ReallyAwfulMovies.com.

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Death by Umbrella! from your run-of-the-mill glossary is the amount of heart
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trivia fiends…”